Global Strategy and Business

One major problem with using Opensolaris was the lack of drivers for mobile 3G modems However with the development of tethering on Android (Froyo 2.2 and above) Openindiana can now been used very easily with laptops on the 3G/4G networks. In Android go to settings,wireless networks,check the boxes marked tethering and mobile networks.This will create a mobile hotspot from your Android Phone. In OI go to the network section at the top right of the screen and manually select the HTC network in this case.You may have to wait a few seconds for it to configure. A notification will show at the top of your screen to show you are connected to the 3 G network via your Android phone.

Open source and cloud computing are all in the tech news these days in a bid to convince us to go into the cloud.Cloud.com lauches a product presentation of their new offering http://open.cloud.com

Sun first muted offering services via the cloud two years ago but what has changed? Leading proprietory system providers all have announced plans to offer services in the cloud over the next few years.The main focus of offerings are likely to be aimed at small to mid sized business with an economy price tag.Traditionally arguments against purchasing cloud services have bee fueled by vendor lockins,security,and lack of high speed bandwith. BSC consulting argues that Opensource is best placed to develop cloud services at reasonable cost over propitiatory software vendors.

Intel announces a new atom processor to compete in the mobile market.Uk company ARM is currently the market leader in the design of mobile chip architecture. Intel has bolstered its hopes by looking at placing the Atom in forthcoming mobile tablets.

Open Source OpenOffice is parting ways with project owner Oracle, so it can set up The Document Foundation and launch its new open source suite called LibreOffice.

Corporate strategy has not been so important as this time in the economic cycle.Those businesses who are likely to remain successful are those who clearly define and articulate the strategy to the business leaders within the organization. To be successful companies who will be emerging from the economic down turn must line up their IT strategy and plan to be part of the corporate strategy formation process.

This month a open distribution was launched in the wake of Opensolaris. Christened ‘Indiana’it is a development release of a binary distribution built on build 147 out of the OpenSolaris open source code. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on OpenSolaris.org, modernising the look and feel of the former OpenSolaris desktop, and introducing a network-based package management system। The resulting distribution can be run as a live CD or installed image,and can to be redistributed। Full details can be found at http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openindiana http://openindiana.org/